Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Poland and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Gichy Dan to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by the Association. All the underground hits.
All Crispy Ambulance tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lower 48 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Glambeats Corp. record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Cameo,
The Detroit Cobras,
Bush Tetras,
Babytalk,
MDC,
Marshall Jefferson,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Al Stewart,
Fear,
Nation of Ulysses,
Bobby Sherman,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Steve Hackett,
Angry Samoans,
Subhumans,
Sparks,
Oneida,
The Electric Prunes,
Flash Fearless,
The Searchers,
Motorama,
Excepter,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Isaac Hayes,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
World's Most,
Alton Ellis,
Intrusion,
Q65,
The Gun Club,
The Cure,
Danielle Patucci,
Kenny Larkin,
Stereo Dub,
The Alarm Clocks,
DJ Sneak,
Arthur Verocai,
Silicon Teens,
Panda Bear,
Minny Pops,
Joe Smooth,
Lindisfarne,
Thee Headcoats,
Black Flag,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
cv313,
Brand Nubian,
Sonny Sharrock,
Parry Music,
Theoretical Girls,
One Last Wish,
Magazine,
Newcleus,
Technova,
The Blackbyrds,
CMW,
Idris Muhammad,
Wolf Eyes, Wolf Eyes, Wolf Eyes, Wolf Eyes.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.